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Each person in the UK uses an average of 150 litres of clean water a day. That figure rises to 3400 litres if you include all the water needed to pro duce all the food we eat and products we buy

http://www.waterwise.org.uk/

All the water consumed in the UK, inclu ding water used to flush the toilet, wash the floor an d water the garden, has been cleaned to drinkable st andard and pumped from our homes, through the p urification process and back to our homes, using lo ts and lots of energy

orldwide do not have hile 2 billion people w Meanw ny clean drinking water access to a

The global population is 6 .7 billion, so this is almost a third of the world ’s population
http://www.otesha.ca/being+the+change/take+action/

rs up and down the Each summer gardene tts, which collect drain country buy water bu be used to water their water that can then tap water through ardens instead of using g sprinklers and hoses. In 2006, suppliers report ed a rise in water butt sales of 60% (in wetter par ts of the country) to 300% (areas with a hosepip e ban)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article712014.

For the same carbon cost as transportin g 3 apples from New Zealand, we could m ove 3500 apples around the UK

Source: Global Action Plan

helves of our shops and Despite this, the s n filled with fruit and supermarkets are ofte y around the world s that have flown halfwa vegetable rer quality than locally reach us and are of poo to freshly picked food grown

Most vegetables lose over 50% of their vitamins within 7 days of being pick ed
Source: British Nutrition Foundation

A 2 year pilot scheme to increase the use of local, healthy ingredients in 4 hospitals in London was so successful that it has be en extended to cover a further 20 hospital s, 5 schools and 5 care homes

http://www.sustainweb.org/page.php?id=83

FASHION

Every year, 270,000 farmers die as a re sult of the heavy pesticides used in cotton produc tion

deaths are accidental ound 20,000 of those Ar 0 are from suicides ings. The other 250,00 poison mers build up by using relating to the debts far expensive chemicals
Source: World Health Organisation

ps or factories in which Sweatshops (sho w wages under poor s work long hours at lo employee the world, especially in nditions) exist all over co t also in Europe and and South America, bu China the UK
www.thefreedictionary.com/sweatshop

Manufacturers and retailers of cheap clo thing have been described as “chasing povert y round the world”, fighting to source the cheap est labour possible in one of the 160 coun tries which furiously compete to export garments fo r just 30 of the richest nations. With workers be ing paid as little as five pence an hour, those £3 jeans can begin to look relatively expensive
http://www.nosweat.org.uk/node/590

Sales of ethical clothing rose by 30% fr om 2003 to 2004, proving how much consumers car e about the issues behind the production of their clo thes

Farmers of goods such as bananas, tea, coffee and chocolate often don’t receive a pric e for their goods that covers the cost to produce th em. This means that they lose money, may be un able to send their children to school and strugg le to feed themselves and their families
use their power to drive appen when supermarkets This can h as bananas), which they h prices of certain items (suc down the stomers into their stores sell cheaply to entice cu
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/downloads/pdf/bananas_behind_the_price_tag.pdf

In 2000, the Co-op were the first UK supermarket to stock Fairtrade bananas . A wide range of Fairtrade products are now avai lable from large and small shops up and down the country

sible for 25% of all UK Transport is respon s, with road transport ns of greenhouse gase emissio ibuting 90% of this contr

Traffic is the leading cause of death for children aged one to 14
Source: Friends of the Earth press release, 23 Jan 1998, on research by Dr Ian Roberts,Director of the Child Health Monitoring Unit at the Institute for Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital

Congestion charging has cut traffic in c entral London by 18% and congestion by 30% since February 2003. There has been an incre ase in cycling of one-third.

imental traffic effects s been no evidence of detr There ha ne from diverting traffic ds outside the charging zo on roa
Source: Transport for London 2005

ENERGY

ep TVs, computers, e electricity used to ke Th nsoles on standby when igiboxes and games co d costing more than it e not in use can end up they’r does to use them

If everyone in the UK turned their dom estic appliances consoles off overnight rathe r than leaving them on standby we could save over £1 billion a year- that’s enough to buy Che lsea football club more than 7 times over

www.energysavingtrust.org.uk

MONEY

Only 1 UK bank has a written ethical po licy about where they’ll invest your money

invest your money in er banks may choose to Oth s or in the arms trade s with oppressive regime countrie

www.cfs.co.uk

that tries to match is a grassroots network Freecycle ant) stuff with other ple who need (or just w peo don’t want or need it who have that stuff and people to get and get rid off re, enabling individuals anymo stuff for free
Since the first UK Freecycle group was set up in 2003, it has grown to 447 local groups and almost 900,000 members
http://uk.freecycle.org/

MEDIA

British children spend on average five h ours per day using media. Compared with others in Europe, they are the most likely to say that there is no t enough for someone their age to do in the area whe re they live